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The Seven Shepherds of
Micah and The Ships of Kittim The Bible teaches that there will be seven nations who will assume the
responsibility of taking care of Israel during the tribulation. God calls
these nations shepherds. One of these nations will be the United States of
America. We will be the anti-Christ's number one enemy. The scriptures
show 7 nations who will deal the anti-Christ a terrible blow. They will
literally drive the anti-Christ out of the Holy Land sometime during the
last 3-1/2 years. In Micah the fifth chapter we find these seven nations
hidden in scripture for us to find in our day and time. Micah 5:2-6 "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little
among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old,
from everlasting. These scriptures found in Micah are telling us that out of Israel the
Messiah would come. They also tell us that in the latter days Israel would
experience troubles that will be like travail to bring forth children,
Assyria will invade Israel. When this happens Jesus will rise up seven
shepherds and eight principal men who will drive the Assyrian all the way
back to the old city of Babylon. This is only 80 miles from Baghdad, Iraq.
The land of Nimrod is Babylon. Both the nations of Assyria and Babylon
make up the modern day nation of Iraq. These people will be part of the
ten nations of the antichrist during the tribulation. This is showing a
time coming that they will be driven out of Israel. This will occur during
the last 3-1/2 years of the tribulation. The mystery in this story is "who are the seven shepherds and the eight
principal men?" This mystery is revealed through scripture. As Gentiles we
have conditioned our minds to only see ourselves when reading the Old
Testament. This has caused serious problems when it comes to understanding
Bible Prophecy. We have blinded our own minds by our own vanity. When we
read these scriptures we try to see everything from a Gentile church
prospective. This is the way God has preserved most of the Old Testament
prophecies, simply by the way we think. We hide them from ourselves. Let's
look at these scriptures. Jeremiah 23: In order to explain these scriptures I must tell you that the pastors
and shepherds are the same thing. God is warning the pastors that destroy
and scatter the sheep of his pasture. Because we have preached and taught
these scriptures as being preachers over congregations we blind ourselves
to the real meaning of these scriptures. Let's take a closer look at verse 3. God says that he is going to
gather the remnant of his flock out of all countries whither he
has driven them, and will bring them again to the folds; and
they shall be fruitful and increase. Verse 4 tells us that he is going to
give them new shepherds that will feed them and
they will have no need to fear any more. If you know anything about the history of the Jews from the time of
Christ, you will understand what I am getting ready to share with you. The
scripture that you have just read is a prophecy written as an allegory. It
is about Israel being driven into the world. God has driven Israel into
all the nations of the world, and he is holding all of these nations
responsible for Israel's welfare and safekeeping. He is calling the
governments of the nations "Pastors or Shepherds". He is warning the
nations that have mistreated Israel "he would visit upon them the evil of
their doings." In other words, He is going to punish them for the way they
have treated his people Israel. Remember the promise that God gave to
Abraham? That whoever blessed him, God would bless, but, he also said that
whoever cursed him he would curse. What we do to Israel, we are doing to
Abraham. God then promised to give Israel over to new shepherds who would take
care of them and that they would never be afraid anymore. God has already
done just that. These scriptures have been fulfilled in just the last two
hundred years. Israel has been killed and persecuted in every nation of
the world. For the most part they have lived in Russia, Europe, and
nations around the Mediterranean Sea. In all of these countries horrible
things have been inflicted upon them. The first group of Jews came to
America somewhere around 1650 from Brazil, which was just 30 years after
the Pilgrims arrived in America. They have been a part of our history from
our very beginnings. In the last two hundreds years God has slowly brought
the Jews to America and other countries like her that will not do the
Jewish people any harm. America was the first country in the world to give
the Jewish people equal citizenship. We are blessed because of it. At the
present time there are more Jews living in America than any nation in the
world including the nation of Israel itself. We have six million living in
America compared to 4.8 million there. God has given Israel new Shepherds and has delivered them from the fear
of persecution in these countries. In America the Jewish people prosper
more than they have ever prospered in their entire history. So much to the
point that most Jewish peoples in America has no desire to return to
Israel. God is blessing them here, but there are other countries that
treat the Jews well also. We are the countries (shepherds) that God has
provided to blessed his people Israel. During the tribulation we will
defend Israel against the anti-Christ. In fact we will drive him
completely out of Israel sometime during the last 3 1/2 years. This is why
he will call for help from other nations at the time of Armageddon.
Remember? Israel is gone; they have escaped for 3 1/2 years. They are not
home. Yet the anti-Christ sends for nations to come and help him go down
against Jerusalem for the Battle of Armageddon. Think about this for a
moment. We all know that the anti-Christ is going to invade Israel and go
into the temple to declare that he is God. Since he has already taken
Israel, why would he be in a position to have to re-take it at the end of
the seven years? The answer to this question is that he will be forced to
leave Israel sometime between the middle and the end of the seven years of
tribulation. We, Israel's Allies, will be the reason that he will come
down. He will be coming to make war with us and the other nations who are
helping her. In Revelation it says that they are coming down to make war against
Christ. For armies to literally make war against Jesus in this light is
probably not true in the sense that we see it. When Paul was persecuting
the Church, He was not literally persecuting Jesus. Yet, Jesus said to
him, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Paul was persecuting the
followers of Christ not Jesus. To Jesus it is one and the same. This is
what is going to happen during the tribulation period. The anti-Christ is
going to wage war against God's people. At Armageddon they will be coming
against the nations who are in Israel to defend her against the enemies of
God. To God they are fighting against him. He will rapture those nations
that are there to help him defend Israel basically because almost every
one of these people in these armies will be born again by that time.
Simply because they will recognize the hour they are living. They will
know that it is the Battle of Armageddon! Christ will rapture these nations along with the rest of his believers
from all over the world, to take them to the marriage supper of the lamb.
No doubt the anti-Christ will wonder what happened to his enemies. It
won't be long, for he is about to find out, when supper is over these
nations will return with Jesus and all his saints to put the anti-Christ
in his place. Look at these scriptures again in the 5th chapter of Micah. In verse 5 the seven shepherds are the seven nations who take care of
Israel. The eight principal men are the seven leaders of these nations.
Jesus himself will be the eighth principal man. These scriptures declare
it. In the 5th verse it says, "and this man shall be the peace, when the
Assyrian shall come into our land." These Assyrians will be part of the
ten nations of the antichrist. Think on this: This fifth chapter of Micah
is talking about Jesus the Messiah. In 722 BC the Assyrians took Israel
captive. Afterwards they tried to take the Southern Kingdom called Judah,
which was ruled by Hezekiah at that time. God fought for Israel and drove
the Assyrians back, but it was not by any man's hand. There is no Bible
record of seven Shepherds and eight Principal men doing anything at that
time. The events we are looking at will happen in the last days. This is
talking about in our time, not then. It is clearly showing these events
happening after Jesus had become the Messiah. There has never been a time
such as this. One of the most amazing things to me is found in the 11th chapter of
Daniel. I suppose the thing that amazes me is the way we have tried to
make scripture say what we want it to. If we didn't know the answer, we
would make up one. Until recently God hasn't revealed the book of Daniel.
But today most pastors, if approached by a member of their own
congregations with a question about it, would supply that person with an
answer. Isn't that amazing? Pride is a terrible thing. Instead of saying
we did not know, or if we pray maybe God would give us the answer, we
would give them an answer whether it was right or wrong! This is the
condition of most American pastors. We just don't want anyone to think
that we don't know. What do you think that Jesus thinks about all of
this? Many of our Bible theologians have been to college but have never been
born again by the Spirit of God. We accept their instructions as if it
were flawless. Amazing. In the 11th chapter of Daniel beginning at verse
21 we see the anti-Christ make his appearance. From verse 21 to the rest
of this chapter it is talking about the anti-Christ, yet in verse 30 they
try to say that this is talking about the Romans long ago. Let me share
with you one of the greatest mysteries the Church has never seen but is
about to embrace. The teachers who have tried to teach this is as being
the Romans did not realize what they were teaching. Read with me in Daniel
for just a minute; It is commonly believed that verse 21 through the rest
of this chapter is talking about the anti-Christ. I personally believe
this myself. Daniel 11: Because people have been unable to explain the ships of Chittim they
have tried to teach that the ships of Chittim was something that occurred
around the time of Christ. I would like to give you a quote from The
Holman Bible Dictionary. "Kittim (kit' tim) Tribal name for the island of
Cyprus, sometimes spelled Chittim. This name was derived
from Kition, a city-state on the southeastern side of the island. Long
associated with maritime lore, the island was ruled first by Greece, then
the Assyrians, and finally, Rome. Genesis 10:4 traces the people's roots
to Noah's son Japheth. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both mention it in their
prophecies (Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6, compare Isaiah
23:1,12). Kittim is used in intertestamental writings as denoting all of the land
west of Cyprus. Kittim and Chittim are one and the same. The Holman Bible Dictionary explained that it was used in intertestamental writings as denoting all of the land west of Cyprus. They also believed that he was probably talking about Rome during a time after Christ. I disagree with them about the Roman Empire. I know that at the time of Christ many Jews called the Romans Chittim, but that was because they were from west of Cyprus. In these scriptures God is simply showing us a group of ships coming from the west of Cyprus that are very powerful. Put it into modern day times. The Jews didn't know that America would exist today. God simply showed Daniel ships coming from the west. This would have been the ships from Chittim, to Daniel. The reason I wanted to bring this point about is because this is the reason that the anti-Christ invades Israel. The antichrist is involved in invading the king of the South for the second time. Powerful ships from west of Cyprus come against him. They are a lot stronger than he is. Look at verse 29 to 31 again. Daniel 11: 29: At the time appointed he shall return, and come
toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
The reason he is grieved and has to return is that he is simply not strong enough to go to war with the ships from the west. Remember, in Bible times anyone west of Cyprus was called Chittim. Daniel was telling us that it would be ships from the west. The United States is directly west of Cyprus. We will be the ships of Chittim. The sad thing is that we will be the reason the anti-Christ breaks his treaty and invades Israel. Think about it! There is not another country in the world that would get involved the way we do when it comes to other nations. The ships from the west are there to force the anti-Christ out of the nation of the king of the south. The anti-Christ becomes indignant. Why? He is humiliated in front of all of these other nations. Daniel said that he would have indignation against the Holy Covenant. This indignation toward this covenant simply means that he regrets ever signing the treaty with Israel. Now the United States has put him to shame, this makes him even more indignant. He begins to contact the other countries that he has previously made agreements with. There will only be six of these countries at this time. It shows these nations as having forsaken the Holy Covenant. Do you remember what I told you about their signing any kind of treaty with Israel? It is acknowledging Israel's right to possess the land of Israel and be a nation. When I was young in the lord I thought that the forsaking the covenant was talking about a bunch of backsliding Christians. But this is on a national level. It is talking about the nations who signed the peace treaty with Israel. These six countries plus the nation of the ant-Christ makes seven nations. How do I know that there are only seven nations with the antichrist? In Rev. 12:3 The Red Dragon has seven heads, 10 horns, seven crowns. The heads are nations; the horns are kings; the crowns mean that seven of these kings have received power. Which shows 3 kings yet to come, but have not received countries to rule yet. This they will do under the leadership of the anti-Christ. He will invade Israel at this point; this is the middle of the tribulation. These nations invade Israel in order to spite the ships of Chittim. Of course the United States is the ships of Chittim. Think about this for a moment. The ships of Chittim absolutely have to be a close friend of Israel, if the antichrist invades Israel thinking to wound the ships of Chittim in some way. This absolutely has to be the United States. When we went to war with Iraq, one of the first things that Saddom did to hurt us was to fire on Israel. He knew that we have an important relationship with Israel. He was trying to force Israel into battle so that the other Muslim nations would join him against the U.S. Also it would possibly cause problems between the U.S. and Israel. This move by the anti-Christ when he invades Israel will be a similar move; it will be the beginning of World War Three. This war will end at Armageddon. The arms standing on his part are simply these six nations joining with the anti-Christ to invade Israel. These people are the people of the prince that would come in Daniel 9. They will set the antichrist on a throne in the Temple and declare him to be God. Israel escapes when he comes. They will go into the land of Jordan to await transport to the United States of America. It is here in this land that God is going to feed Israel for 3 1/2 years. America was a wilderness in John's day. God told John that they would go to a place that he had prepared for them in the Wilderness. God has been preparing America for this event for over 400 years. The United States of America, along with six other allies, will fight in Israel's defense. Sometime during the last 3 1/2 years we will drive the anti-Christ completely back to the Euphrates River in Iraq. Afterwards he will call for help from other nations to fight against us. This will be time for Armageddon. At that time most of America will have come to Christ and will be in the rapture along with everyone else that is the Lords. We will eat the marriage supper of the lamb and return to defeat the anti-Christ. Then there will be a One-World Government just like Isaiah said; "the Government would be on His Shoulders." Jesus is coming back to rule the World with peace and Love. Thank You Lord for such a wonderful plan. Yours in Christ, |
